{"id":1901,"date":"2022-02-07T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T11:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2022-02-24T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T17:05:11","slug":"page-breaks-how-leisure-time-became-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2022\/02\/07\/page-breaks-how-leisure-time-became-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks: How Leisure Time Became Work &#8211; Wed 9th Feb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/hM0suU-8lVaaxN_SMxaDbV0gsX4=\/0x0:1200x675\/976x549\/media\/img\/mt\/2021\/11\/WatchTVWork\/original.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our reading for this week reflects on the increasingly complex relationship between leisure and work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll use the article as a starting-point to consider the challenges &#8211; and rewards &#8211; of turning personal pleasures into professionalised academic research, including how it feels to write critically about a favourite book. We&#8217;ll reflect on our different impulses as readers\/researchers, and compare notes on the kind of data-driven hobbies Shirley Li discusses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-9d6ee005-6ee3-44ff-a4d5-372dbfabfb98\">Text (Reading)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-d58dbca0-cc3d-4938-82f1-ef032c72f025\"><li>Shirley Li, &#8220;How Leisure Time Became Work&#8221; (The Atlantic, 2021)<br>Read online: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2021\/12\/americans-tv-watching-job\/620862\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2021\/12\/americans-tv-watching-job\/620862\/<\/a>  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-39aaf5a6-8b56-48ea-8907-12d23d9b558f\">&#8220;Time&#8221; and &#8220;Place&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-ca0f78f2-eb50-462f-97d3-a9579d7b8dff\"><li>Wednesday 9th February 2022, 1 pm<\/li><li>Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/82213440726?pwd=QVQvcXBGclBibnFna1RiYS92eDBJZz09\">Link&nbsp;<\/a>(Password: pagebreaks).  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-2fd33e30-4220-4439-96fe-679aa6c8b838\">Looking forward to seeing you again soon! This event is run by Dorothy Butchard and Toria Johnson (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk and t.johnson@bham.ac.uk). Please email us if you have any questions, but you&#8217;re welcome to just turn up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-65810b35-a09d-4396-ade0-9b8099f3efe1\">About<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-b777ee7a-87dc-4fbf-9bcb-950fb5fb0acc\">Page Breaks is a (very) informal weekly reading group within the Department of English Literature. All welcome!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our reading for this week reflects on the increasingly complex relationship between leisure and work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":1906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-lit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}